Strong wind and diffuse solar drive 74.7% renewables at 70.3 GW, creating 11.2 GW net export despite persistent coal baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 35%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
75%
Renewable share
22.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.7 GW
Solar
70.3 GW
Total generation
+11.2 GW
Net export
61.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.7°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 225.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
188
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.7 GW dominates the right half of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon under diffuse white light; wind onshore 20.5 GW fills the centre-right as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly; brown coal 10.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast; hard coal 4.4 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with rectangular boiler houses and a tall brick chimney beside the lignite complex; natural gas 3.1 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip plant with a squat smokestack and timber yard in the centre-left; wind offshore 2.5 GW is visible as a distant row of turbines on the far horizon line; hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a modest powerhouse beside a green riverbank at far left. Full daylight at 14:00, September afternoon: the entire sky is a uniform 100% overcast blanket of pale grey-white stratus clouds with no blue visible, yet the scene is brightly lit with soft, shadowless diffuse illumination. Temperature 19.7°C, early-autumn vegetation with leaves just beginning to hint yellow at the edges on scattered birch and linden trees, grass still green. Moderate wind animates the turbine blades and bends tall grasses. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and close, consistent with an elevated power price—a faint industrial haze thickens the air near the thermal plants. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading the distant offshore turbines into milky haze, meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.